CC-LOG-04 — Outbound Traffic Snippet (Redacted)
Case: CC-26-0318-LC / Operation LOTUS LANTERN
Classification: Law enforcement sensitive (simulation)
Date: Day 2 (AEST)

Source provenance:
Recovered from routine outbound monitoring export provided to investigators.
This excerpt is retained as an observation artefact and does not by itself establish intent.

Firewall Logs:
2026-02-12T03:01:02+11:00  POST /v1/messages  200
Host: api.external-ai-service.com
X-API-Key: sk-live-7f2a********9c1d
User-Agent: lotuscare-workflow/4.1
Content-Type: application/json

Outbound Traffic Report:
- Repeated HTTPS requests to the same external host were observed during the 03:01 window.
- Request shape remained highly consistent across the sampled interval.

Security Operations Snapshot:
- Endpoint pattern appears aligned with message-based external processing APIs.
- Record retained as an observation only; no attribution conclusion is made in this artefact.

Cross-reference observation:
The redacted key fragment pattern above is consistent with a key reference format noted in CC-RFI-02.
Request shape and endpoint pattern are also consistent with message-style inference services used in AI-assisted workflow tooling.
This is recorded as a correlation observation only; attribution remains unconfirmed.